Votes at a glance: key measures the Alabama House adopted April 22

The Alabama House completed a long floor session April 22 and recorded votes on a range of measures. Below are the key bills and final outcomes recorded on the House floor during the day.

- SB 113 (Supplemental Appropriations): Adopted. Supplemental package of about $524,276,588 with line items for K–12, higher education, arts and agencies. (Floor adoption and recorded vote.)

- SB 112 (Education Trust Fund budget): Adopted. ETF increased by roughly $561 million to about $9.9 billion for FY 2026; includes $213 million for First Class Pre‑K, a roughly $250 million increase for K–12 (foundation program increases), and a $146 million increase for higher education. (Recorded vote.)

- SB 114 (Advancement & Technology substitute): Adopted as substituted. Approximately $1.25 billion for advancement/technology allocations with a $100 million carve‑out for regional career‑tech centers and local match provisions. (Recorded vote on substitute and final passage.)

- SB 305 (RAISE Act enabling legislation): Adopted. Hybrid needs‑based model; about $166 million described on the floor this year to be distributed based on student weights (poverty, ELL, special education, gifted, charter); companion measures to transfer reserve funds were adopted. (Recorded vote.)

- SB 111 (Education Opportunity Reserve Fund substitute): Adopted. Transfers $375 million (three years) to the RAISE Fund and temporarily moves $80 million to the CHOOSE Act to cover a high number of applications; unused CHOOSE funds revert to reserve. (Recorded vote.)

- SB 303 (School Principal Leadership and Mentoring Act, substitute): Adopted as substituted. Clarifies mentoring stipend eligibility; principals receive $10,000 for mentoring completion and assistant principals $5,000; decouples an extra stipend from the federal community‑eligible definition and limits the extra stipend to a smaller set of hard‑to‑staff schools going forward. (Recorded vote: 98–2 on final passage.)

- HB 379 (Income tax for out‑of‑state remote workers): Adopted. Clarifies that nonresident employees who work in Alabama 24 days or less in a calendar year are excluded from Alabama income tax under the cost‑model approach; includes clarifying language exempting certified disaster‑relief workers from withholding. (Floor substitute and amendment adopted; recorded vote.)

- HB 600 (Tax exemption for Alabama School of Health Care Sciences): Adopted. Adds the new school to existing state/local tax exemption for public residential high schools. (Recorded vote.)

- SB 150 (Talladega College appropriation): Adopted. Appropriation to Talladega College for FY 2026: $1,000,326,157 (BR and final passage recorded on the floor).

- SB 109 (Tuskegee University appropriation): Adopted. $15,816,579 from the ETF for Tuskegee University for FY 2026. (Recorded vote.)

- SB 122 (Southern Preparatory Academy appropriation): Adopted. $450,000 appropriated for the next fiscal year.

The House also concurred with Senate amendments on several local and technical bills (examples include HB 128, HB 123, HB 250, HB 200, HB 456 and others listed on the calendar). Where votes were recorded on the floor, the clerk’s tally showed overwhelming support for the measures listed above.

For lawmakers and districts, the most consequential outcomes are the ETF budget, the supplemental appropriations, the Advancement & Technology allocations (including new career‑tech funding), and the passage of the RAISE enabling bill and reserve‑fund transfer. Those measures will affect FY‑26 spending and program implementation schedules.